Oesterreich-Ungarn. Ulanen-Rgt # 1, 1914

[Dan Morton]

Pretty much complete. The biggest item left to finish is the Mannlicher carbine. That's coming along nicely - better than I had hoped! There are all kinds of buckles to add to the reins and related leather gear. And the horse particularly needs a thorough clean-up and a close check of all the seams to see if I have them all covered properly. I see a few places that need sanding. A couple more week-ends should see it all finished, I think.

The horse is one of the Dragon kit horses. The head and boots are from either Michael Roberts or The Lost Battalion (can't remember). The hands are from Verlinden. Can't recall where I came by the sword. The stand is papier mache, covered by pumice resin. I plan to add some grass and rocks, maybe a small tree(?). I used MagicSculpt and Kneadatite mixes for most of it.

Hope you like it!

All the best,
Dan

 

[mil-mart]

Dan, impressive, great work on the helmet and I like the textured scarf, nice touch.

Cheers Ken

 

[billyturnip]

Very nice Dan. I can see you've put a great deal of effort into this.

Roger.

 

[Dan Morton]

Many thanks Ken and Roger!

All the best,
Dan

 

[megroot]

That's a wonderfull Ulan. It's not often sculpted with this kind of helmet.
Excellent.

marc

 

[Cvikings67]

Dan, Looks good!
Chris

 

[Marcel]

Great sculpture Dan!

regards,
Marcel.

 

[1969]

This is looking very good Dan and i love the subject you have chosen, one small point is the figures left hand would look better in contact with the horses rump, it maybe the figure isnt seated properly for the photograph and if so then please ignore this comment mate.

very nice job Dan,

Steve

 

[Dan Morton]

Many thanks Marc, Chris, Marcel and Steve!

Steve, I started to put the hand in contact with the rump. I kinda staged the way in which the figure is leaning slightly and bending at the waist using info provided by two experienced horsemen. What I actually did was, as suggested by one of them, I sat on a bar stool with both legs on either side of the stool. Then I twisted at the waist and leaned back. I'm an older and chunkier fella than the Ulan, of course, but I found I had trouble leaning toward what would be the rear of the horse enough to (in my judgement) put my hand flat on where the rump would be. I could flex enough at the waist without raising out of the saddle (off the top of the bar stool) to get into the position, but could not lean down a bit more enough to get my hand where it would be on the horse's rump. Anyway - maybe incorrectly - I judged that the horseman would not be able to put his hand on the rump without coming out of the saddle a bit and I didn't want to have to try to depict that in the sculpting. That's why the hand's not on the horse's rump. I hope you follow the explanation above. Probably told you a lot more than you wanted to know. Sorry!

All the best,
Dan

 

[1969]

Dan i completey understand and appreciate your full explenation mate, even tried to invisage you on the bar stool but didnt want to go there .
Because of the posing of the hand it really suggests that it needs to be in contact with the rump so maybe a change of pose with that hand would work better, maybe a fist with the knuckles just in cotact may work.

Altogether this is a very nice done figure mate and i in no way want to detract from that fact,

All the best mate,

Steve

 

[John Bowery]

Dan,
Nicely sculpted and action.
Cheers
John

 

[Dan Morton]

Thanks Steve and John!

I'm kinda already starting to think of the next one. I think I'm going to do a conversion of a female figure I bought some time back. As I recall I got it at one of the Chicago shows. It was in one of The Lost Battalion's reduced price bins. I've added wire legs to the figure and one arm and a hand. The scale is 1/16th. The entire figure will stand about 95mm in height.

I'm thinking about a WWI Scottish munitionette girl. Somewhat similar to the attached photos. I've only just begun the research and fooling around with the figure. I'm thinking about something fairly simple. A simple standing pose with a greasy rag in one hand and a wrench in the other with the figure on the factory floor, a metal work table and wood shell holder box holding 6 or 7 shells. Maybe one of the shell tops could be partly open and some kind of a fitting ready to be loaded into it? Whaddya think?

All the best,
Dan